Critic of Music

Vocal Range: D3 - F5 - D6
Vocal Fach: Soubrette (3 octaves)
Vocal Rating: C
Recommended Listenings: Your Heart Is A Muscle, Tonight I'm Getting Over You

Positives: A light, sweet and airy voice that's bright and youthful from top to bottom. Though far from an exceptional vocalist, Jepsen's voice displays positive traits.

Her lower register is light and airy, but often fits the style of her music and maintains pitch accuracy. Unfortunately, support is only present down to A3.

As she ascends her voice sheds some of the breathiness, becoming fuller with support being found consistently up to A4 and occasionally up to C5, while phrasing up to Eb5. In the fifth octave, her voice gains some push and rasp, a product of throatiness.

Her falsetto is light and bright, maintaining some stamina (When I Needed You), register transitions, and ease.

Negatives: The voice lacks resonance and the supported ranger is limited, while the lower register is foggy and breathy. Her belts are often throaty without breath support, and can waver in intonation. The girlish tone and rasp is also polarizing. 

Vocal Range: F3 - G5 - C6
Vocal Type: Lyric Soprano (2 octaves, 4 notes)
Vocal Rating: B-
Recommended Listenings: Bulletproof, Quicksand

Positives: An instantly identifiable voice. Elly never brings herself to force notes, with even her highest notes being achieved with ease. The low notes are thick and darker than the rest of the voice, and is achieved with good technique. Though her voice is generally airy and whispy, she has shown the ability to solidify her voice, see 'Bulletproof'.

Negatives: Vocal runs are messy and labored, and the voice overall is fairly thin, causing it to become shrill at points. Her mixed voice is very heady, making it hard to determine if she is singing in head voice or mixed voice.

Vocal Range: G#2 - Bb4 - G#5
Vocal Type: Lyric Tenor (3 Octaves)
Vocal Rating: C
Recommended Listenings: Pictures, Better Than You
Positives: A soft lyric voice capable of fast, simple vocal runs, with a well connected voice. The low notes are dark and heavy, while the falsetto is light and piercing. The head voice is thicker and controlled so that it avoids feminine qualities. Seamless transitions from chest to head voice.

Negatives: The voice lacks power, and time in falsetto is very limited.

Selena Gomez is charming, relatively scandal free, talented actress. What she is not, is a talented vocalist. Her performance at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards was sub par to say the least; it was straight up karaoke. And before someone claims that the dancing was reason for her lack luster performance, the dancing was not very rigorous at all. It would be understandable if she hit one or two bad notes with the routine, but an entire song of flat notes? Not okay.

Selena's new single is very Indian inspired, with the drums filling up the chorus and being its only real substance. She put on a PG-13 at sexiest inspired performance that would please everyone below the 12 year old threshold. She gave her best dance moves, and hopefully not her best vocals, and tried her best. But it still fell flat (literally).

The reviews for the performance have been unrealistically positive saying "Justin doesn't know what he's missing." But to be honest, he knows what he's missing. And it seems like this performance would've been an epiphany if anything.

Range: D3 - B5 - E7
Vocal Type: Light-Lyric Soprano (4 octaves and a note)
Vocal Rating: B-
Recommended Listenings: Emotions, The Way

Positives: A vocal actress, being able to mimic the tones and voices of Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and Celine Dion.

Her lower register, though often weak and inconsistent (due to her high tessitura and breath support issues), is relatively strong for a soprano, supporting down to F#3 and extending to D3.

Her belts are achieved through mixing, having stretched up to Bb5's successfully; Grande also has no issue staying in the soprano tessitura for extended periods of time (see live performances of Break Free, Dangerous Woman and Focus). Her belting register as a whole is extensive and reaches up to an impressive B5. Capable of complex, fast melismas (see Hands on Me and Problem). A rolling vibrato can be heard in belts up to G#5 and as low as Bb3.

Her falsetto is light and sweet and is also where the voice finds its 'ring,' being bright and healthy up to Eb6. 

The whistle register is piercing, and the whistles don't have disconnected tones attached to them (polyphonic tones). She is able to sing vocal runs in this register (See Emotions).

Negatives: The previously mentioned mixed belts generally lack power and the whistle register is not controlled (something she has admitted herself). Her slightly nasal and feminine tone is also polarizing. Her diction is unpolished, leaving her lyrics incomprehensible at points (see the bridge of Break Free) due to tongue tension. Grande also over activates muscles in her jaw - mostly while singing runs - furthering this tongue tension, which in turn changes the positioning of the larynx. Intonation live has proven to be a problem at points (around 2013), and the lower register sounds unsupported in most instances. Her support is also inconsistent, ranging from around G3-C#5, above C5/C#5 she raises her larynx.